The temperature on December 2, 1881 was about 6.8 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
Day of marriage April 27, 1901
The temperature on April 27, 1901 was between 2.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (40%). Source: KNMI
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Day of death April 12, 1960
The temperature on April 12, 1960 was between 5.2 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
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